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WATCH: Olympic Torch Makes Its First Space Walk

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The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch relay made history today: After riding from Earth to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, two Russian astronauts took it with them on a space walk, marking an Olympic first.

As Howard Berkes reported back in June, the torch was not lit.

“That’s because an open flame in a spaceship could be, well, dangerous,” Howard explained. “Still, once back on Earth at the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February, the space torch will be all fired up.”

Luckily, the astronauts did not let go, but the torch was tethered anyway. With that, we’ll leave you with the cool video showing the torch make its way to outer space:

The torch will return to Earth on Monday. In case you missed it, here is video of the day the torch arrived on the Space Station:

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Sochi spacewalk: Olympic torch ventures out from ISS for first time

Sochi spacewalk: Olympic torch ventures out from ISS for first time
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Published time: November 09, 2013 15:12

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Russian cosmonauts have taken the Olympic torch for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games out for its first-ever spacewalk on Saturday. The “cosmic” torch will be the one to light the Olympic flame in February.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazansky have taken the Olympics’ main symbol into outer space and are walking around with it, handing it to one another in an imitation of a more down-to-earth torch relay.

“Prior to that, the cosmonauts will attach a holder, carrying a hermetically sealed box with a camera, to the surface of the space craft. The rest of the ISS crew will also film their colleagues,” a representative of Russia’s Mission Control told RIA Novosti.

The cosmonauts have promised to make a spectacular show out of the spacewalk and said they’ve chosen a really good location for the photo shoot, so that the torch will be front and center, with the Earth behind it in the background.  

Kotov and Ryazansky will not venture far from the ISS. They have the torch, specially modified for the space mission, safely attached to a cosmonaut’s spacesuit by a slidewire.

The photo shoot with the Olympic torch will take an hour out of the six-hour-long mission of the Russian ISS crew members in outer space, during which they will also be dismantling and mounting several items of the station’s equipment. They are also supposed to check the ISS’s surface for possible damage done by micro meteorites.

While in outer space the torch is not burning, as it’s not burning inside the ISS, where it arrived onboard a Soyuz spacecraft, November 7. The torch will be relit with gas once it returns to Earth on November 11, and will eventually light the main flame of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on February 7.

Meanwhile, the record-breaking 65,000-kilometer torch relay across Russia is well under way. As part of the epic journey, the torch has already visited the North Pole. 

Among other landmark destinations are the bottom of the deepest lake in the world – Lake Baikal, as well as the top of the Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe.

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U.S. Olympic Committee Adds Sexual Orientation To Discrimination Rules

Months ahead of the Winter Olympics in Russia, where controversy surrounds a law that targets homosexuality, the U.S. Olympic Committee adds protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation to its policies.

“The fact that we do not think it is our role to advocate for a change in the Russian law does not mean that we support the law, and we do not,” USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said.

The organization’s board adopted the measure after its chairman, Larry Probst, said he would support adding sexual orientation to the International Olympic Committee’s non-discrimination policies.

“Americans are among Olympic athletes who’ve expressed outrage about the law,” NPR’s Howard Berkes reports for our Newscast unit. “The International Olympic Committee has warned athletes that engaging in political protest during the Olympics violates the Olympic Charter. The USOC is pushing the international Olympic body to also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

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U.S. Olympic Committee Adds Sexual Orientation To Discrimination Rules

U.S. Olympic Committee Adds Sexual Orientation To Discrimination Rules

Months ahead of the Winter Olympics in Russia, where controversy surrounds a law that targets homosexuality, the U.S. Olympic Committee adds protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation to its policies.

“The fact that we do not think it is our role to advocate for a change in the Russian law does not mean that we support the law, and we do not,” USOC CEO Scott Blackmun said.

The organization’s board adopted the measure after its chairman, Larry Probst, said he would support adding sexual orientation to the International Olympic Committee’s non-discrimination policies.

“Americans are among Olympic athletes who’ve expressed outrage about the law,” NPR’s Howard Berkes reports for our Newscast unit. “The International Olympic Committee has warned athletes that engaging in political protest during the Olympics violates the Olympic Charter. The USOC is pushing the international Olympic body to also ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

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U.S. Olympic Committee Adds Sexual Orientation To Discrimination Rules